News Scrapbook 1975-1977

vN Io N j-1-0 USD Sinks Hawaii To WinSeries USD's Toreros won the rubber game of their series with Hawaii last night on their home court, 77-69, in a game televised back to the islands. .Playing .before 1,800, the second largest home crowd in their history, the Toreros nurtured a slim two-point lead in the first hall but stretched 1t out in the final period behind the shooting of Eddie Davis, Rick Mi· chlemore and Steve Hanz and some hot shooting at the roul line. 'i'he win gave USD a 2-1 edge over Hawaii this season and also upped the Toreros record to 12-7, the second best mark on the West Coast among teams in the NCAA Divsion IL Only defending national Champion Puget Sound has a better mark at thJs point in the season. Fonoor Helix High and Grossmont College star Steve Honz had 14 points and II rebounds to pace USD. He is a 6-6 senior center. Rick Michlemore, a 6-5 junlor for- ward, had 12 points and held Hawaii's top scorer, Gavin Smith, to just SIX points. The USD effort also got a boost from William Stewart who came orr the bench to score nine points and take down five reboun rebounds. USD won the game at the foul line with 94 per cent shooting, hilting 17 of 18 free throws. In other small college ac- tion last night, USIU's West- erners defeated Southern California College, 77-76, and Chapman defeatc•d UCSD, 107-79 Joe Sobkowiak pumped in an eight-loot jumper for USIU to tie the score at 75-75 and then made a driving layup with three seconds on the clock to give the West- erners the victory and up their season mark to 9-14. Point Loma, Toreros Win Impressively Point Loma College and the l:niverS1ty of san Diego both chalked up Impressive wins last night, while UCSD was absorbing an 85-65 loss at Azusa P~cific. The Crusaders from Point Loma took o\er Y.1th four minutes to go Jn what had been a see-saw first half and led the rest of the way behind the 23-point shooting of Ron Owens and Jeff Arm· strong to defeat Cal Baptist' 90-77 at Los Angeles. At Riverside, USD got an early jump on UC-RlverSide and never trailed after tak- ing an early 10-5 lead, win- ning 86-76. Eddie Davis hit the first three lield goals for USD to Ive the Riverside 1-3-1 zone at the outset. The Toreros led 58-38 \\ith 14 minutes to go and Riverside never got closer than nine. USD, now 15-7 for the year, shot 48.5 per cent from the field, with Davis getUng 23 points and Buzz Harnett 21. Riverside hit 36 7 from the floor and was paced in the scoring column by James Laudermilk with 21 and Leo Wills with 17 Point Loma upped i1S sea- son mark to 18-7 with its win over Cal Baptist. The Crusaders also are 7--0 in Southern Division play Pf. Lorna (90) Col Bopfist

USD HOSTS CHAPMAN; USIU AT POINT LOMA Toreros, Crusaders Playoff-Minded d \t\ 11 By HANK WESCH ··our last game was a good one from the team Staff wrner, The son Oht90Union standpoint. It's been that way all season really, when one guy's not playing well someone else takes over.

5' ,11 ,, USD Shoots For 2ndWin Over Hawaii USD's basketball team makes its television debut shooting for a second win in succession agalnst Hawaii tonight at 8 at the USD gym. The two teams split a pair of games last week in Hawaii, USD winning the second encounter, 84-75 a week ago tonight. The win increased the Toreros' record to 11-7 ror the season and coach Jim Brovelli's team tonight begins a final month home stand in which seven or nine games will be played on the Torero court. Tonight's game will be tele- vised back to Hawaii, the first video appearance for USD. Guard Ron Cole, averag-. ing 13.9 points per game leads USD's scorers followed closely by forward Buzz Harnett (13.8) and guard Eddie Davis (12.9). Hawaii ts 5-13 on the sea- son and is led by former UCLA player Gavin Smith, a 6-6 senior averaging 23.3 points per game Other area small college action tonlgfft finds USIIJ hosting Southern Cali!o ia College at 8 at the University High gym and UCSD at Chapman College The V SIU contest highlights an "Alumni Day" or basketball, and a contest featuring oome of the top players of pa t years at the school Will be held at 6 p.m. TorerosJJ,d-n . • "Th~ w,n streaK on the line The Cniversity of San Diego will be trying to ex- tend a three-game winning streak when it tackles a good Grand Canyon College team tonight in Alcala Park. Tipoff is slated for 8 and the Torero basketball team has a score to settle with the visiting Antelopes. It has several scores to settle. USD has lost five straight games to the Phoerux club - including a 71-60 decision last month - and the Toreros trail in the alltime series, 9-6. Fortunately for San Diego, Grand Canyon is fi. nally without its All-Ameri- can center, Bayard Forest. Forest, the team's best player the last four years, is now performing with Ath- letes In Action. The Antelopes remain formidable, however. The team is 18-6 after beaUng Cal Baptist, 69-68, in River- side. By winning their last three outings, the Toreros have pushed their record to 13-7. They are 8-1 at home. And they would like to let the good times roll this eve- ning. "We haven't beaten these guys in three years," coach Jim Brovelli said, "and we'd like to think we owe 'em one. The big thing, though, JS to keep our mo- mentum going. We've been playing pretty well lately." Brovelh will probably start Eddie Davis and Ron Cole at guard, Gary Ely at center and Buzz Harnett with Rick ~lichlemore at forward. Harnett, a 6-7 Junior from San Francisco, has taken the team lead in scoring with an average of 13.4 points a game. Davis is averaging 13.3, Cole 13.0. This promises to be a grueling weekend for L"SD. Tomorrow night the Toreros will journey to UC- Riverside. Monday night they will return to San Diego to face Dominguez Hills State

The coaches of two teams which currently appear to be on the playoff trail were talking about the road ahead yesterday Both were optimistic but wary of ambush. And the home court advantage was prominent in both conversations. Jim Brovelli has his USD team at 12-7 on the season and fresh from a big win over Hawaii Saturday night. Six of the team's remaining eight games are on their home court at Alcala_ Park, a site where the Toreros have lost only once m nme games so far this season. USD has completed this year's games against NCAA D1v1s1on I schools with a 4-2 record, and with six more wins Brovell1 feels the Toreros will have a solid chance at being awarded a berth in the NCAA Division II post• season playoffs. It's a very plea.sing prospect, Brovell1 admits. "I like the ldea we can determine our own outcome " says BroveUi "We ha_ve_several games at home again& our own people and 1f we can put together a winning streak and finish w1lh a good record I'll feel good about our chances to make the playoffs. Going 4-2 against the big schools has to be in our favor " An overtime loss to Hawaii two weeks ago precc>ded back-to-back wms over the Rainbows by USD, one in Honolulu, the other the team's most recent home victory. Though Hawaii doesn't have a winning record, the tri- umphs figure to be a factor when the NCAA starts looking for three teams_ to go with the California Collegiate Athletic AssociatJOn (CCAA) champion 1n the D1vis1on II Far West Regionals. More importantly, however, may be the confidence the Toreros have gained in the wins. "r,0nfidence is an important factor in any sport, and ~-en ~,ter we lost to them in overtime the first Ume we thought that if we played well and limited mistakei we could beat them," Brovelli says. ''After we won in Hawaii we were very confident we could beat them back home.

"Steve Honz is playing as well as he has at any time in two seasons with us, Buzz Harnett and William Stewart are also playing every well. "When you're going like this, you can't wait to go out there and go at It again." The Toreros don't have to wait long. Tonight they host Chapman College in an 8 o'clock starter. On Friday Grand Canyon visits USD and on Saturday the Toreros travel to Riverside. * * * Point Loma College starts the second and final round of games against NAIA District 3 Southern Division schools tonight against U.S. International at Point Loma College. And as Point Loma coach Ben Foster says, "We wouldn't want to trade spots with anybody," in the league standings at the present time. The Crusaders are 5--0, atop the standings, and fresh from therr first non-league win over Grand Canyon in four seasons accomplished last week. Overconfidence would seem to be the Crusaders' chief worry at the moment, but Foster doesn't see it that way. "Realistically it shouldn't be," he says, "at least I'd hope not. "We played everyone a close game the first time around, and Jt scares me to think about playing any of them again. Three of the next five league games are on the road where we've played .500 ball an.ct anything can happen when you're travelling. "If we're not ready to play, we don't deserve to win." The big factors in Point Lorna's league and overall success (the Crusaders are 16-7 on the season) have been the team's ability to score well from the field and get their best free throw shooters to the line in crucial situations in the latter part or close games. "We've gotten beat on the boards in nearly all the close games, but we"ve hit key free throws several times," Foster sa s.

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Point Loma, USD N.ot~?er/ Key Wins Un"'1 University of San Diego and Point Loma College con- tinued their winning ways while U.S. International and UC San Diego suffered defeats in area small college basketball action last night. Eddie Davis came off the bench to test tus strained knee ligaments and poured in 21 points to lead the Toreros (13-7) to an 83-73 triumph over Chapman Col· lege on the USD floor. Point Loma cruised to its 17th win against only seven defeats and earned a 6-0 mark mNAIA District 3 play with a 94-77 nod o..-er usru on the Crusaders' boards. At UCSD, Cal Baptist broke away from a 31-31 halftime tie to humble the Tntons, 69-56. "I think maybe we got away with one," said USD coach Jim Brovelli of his win over Chapman. •·we couldn't seem to move out to a big lead although we had sever- a, good chances. But, we still played ,ery well overall." DaVJS hit on eight of nine attempts from the floor and added ~1 en assists in only 28 minutes of action for the Toreros. Steve Honz scored JO points but, more import- ant, collected 11 rebounds. The latter led USD to a 34- 18 edge m the rebounding department to offset a 63 per cent (31 of 49) field goal shoaling by the visitors. The Toreros hit 54 per cent (33 of 61). Chapman cut the USD edge LO 73-70 \\ilh only 1:39 left but Bill Stewart srored six points in the fmal mmute to assure the victory. Stew- art had 16 points for the evening with Buzz Harnett adding 12. At Point Loma. the Crusaders hit 18 of 20 free throw attempts to help hold off the Westerners. Jeff Armstrong blistered the nets ror 25 Point Loma points with 6-6 Barrie Elliott add- mg 20 and 6-7 Ron Owens 18. Dwight Hayes and Joe Sobkowiak each had 18 for USIU. Cal Baptist outscored the Tritons, 38-25, in the final 20 minutes after the halftime deadlock. Wayne Brown had 14 and Bob Mordlev 13 to pace the winners but Lee Gardner's 22 for UCSD led all scorers. Ken llielvin added 16. It was UCSD's 21st set- back against only three wms. Cal Baptist 1s now 18-6. Chapmon (76) USO (U) ThUf'mon (20) Cole (6) Oovts m Strode (B' Kinsley (21 Ely (0) Johnwn (111 Hor~tt (12) Bouler ( 10) Mlchlemore (6) Chapmon ...... .•. •. JI • 5 - 1' USD . ••• ... •• ••• ••• J7 4'-U Others sc.onn;: ChaPmon. SIUsher •· Owens 7, N~t"f ,. Moze •; USD--COOk •· Davis 11, Stewart lid,, Horu: 10 Fouled ovt--chopmon: T111.1rmon, Boulf'I"; USO-Col•, Strode. Ri~fhnlco1 fouls-Chapmon coach Toto! fouls-Chapmon 26, USO 25. ~~!~fH?l, Point Loma (N) n,omos C6l Elliott C2D) Hudson {11) ( m Sobkov.iok (18) Armstrong (25> Wot50n i6) ROOlnson (2) P us 1 ou 1 L .••... ,..... •........ '7 40--n on omo ..._.. . • 1 ~"" Others Scoring - ..isilJ•· Tibbs 2 Go9non ,. Trousoo1e I, Cod.,. :z. Polni ~,:.~~el 5, Bollk.ion 9, Scott :z, Fouled Out - None Total Fouls - us1U 11, Point Lomo .. JV USIU 16, Point lomo TS . Col 8aPi1st ('9) UCSO (5') Rogers 110) Omolev 1101 Duoe-n f10J M~lvln 061 Brown (14! GardflE'r (271 Mordtev (13) Froz:1er 101 W1~v ( •) Brockett 161 Col lcPitst • , . .. . •. •. 31 ll - '9 ucso ... ·•• .... , , ····•·31 25- 5' Otlwrl "4r.µl8 - Col BaPlist H veiy bc16~~ 2Bu ner 2 10. Tedlnicol fclu s- UCSD · Frotl.r 2 Toto! fouls Cal BCJDt st 6 UCSO 16 ,.I/ UCSD" Cal BOPtbf 12. 77

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explams, Simply, "things like that Just happen : People thmk I'm hot-dogging some times but I've always played like this. I'm not domg thmgs to be rancy. Usually they're the most effective way to make the play." On another team, Davis might easily be a well-known star. .USD is so well-balanced, however, that , his statlst1cs don't speak for themselves. True, he is averaging 13.3 points and six assists a game. But he is only the third- leading scorer at USD. So he gets his kicks from other, less tangible things. Like wlnmng. It 1s no coincidence that Davis plays his best games against the best Torero oppo- nents. He scored 17 points and had IO assists against San Diego State. He had 25 points and eight assists at Hawaii. Chapman had won eight consecutive games but Davis came up with another big-game game last mght This was not one of USD's better efforts Wilham Stewart scored 16 points and Steve llonz collected 11 rebounds but the Toreros did not play crisp basketball. They committed 24 turnovers. So loose was their defense that Chapman (12-11) shot 63 per cent from the field. "We got away with one," Brovelli said "Maybe we were due for a game like this· I don't know. But if we don't play better i~ the next couple of weeks we're going to lose some games." USD is in for a he,·Uc weekend The team will play host to Gra~d Canyon College Friday night. It will travel to UC- Il1verside Saturday night. It will then return to Alcala Park to face Dominguez their· sights focused ,squarely on the 1\CAA's Division II playoffs. With.the exception of defending regional champion Puget Sound, San Diego has the best Div1s10n !I record on the west Coast. HIils State .'\londay night. The· Toreros still have

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.When. the other nine guys are mere d1stract1ons, sidelights, props for his one- man show. And it was one of those nights last nlght at the University of San Diego. Davis, the 5-9 guard from Harlem played only 28 minutes. But he scored 2i points, doled out seven assists, and led the Toreros past Chapman, 83-76 The victory was the team's third straight and lined San Diego's record to 13-7 on the year Davis was not supposed to play last night. He sprained an ankle Sunday, did not practice ~londay, and was withheld from the sta1ting lineup against Chapman "I wasn't gomg to use him but he told me _he wanted to try,• Torero coach Jim Brovelli said. 'I was hopmg he'd give us a lift and he sure did." With 12 minutes gone in the first half Davis took the floor Shortly thereafter h~ owned ii. Davis 1s among the more spectacular players mcollege basketball and he was at his flamboyant best la.~t night. He canned eight of his nine shots from the field Severa.or his assists came on blind passes. lie collected five steals, "It's too bad more people don't know ab?UI him,'' Brovelli said, "berause when hes going good. he's an awfully exciting basketball player He brings crowds to their feet everywhere we go. He can do thmgs most guys don't even think about doing." He is somethmg, this little guard. Torero fans have come to expect the unexpected. And when Davis zips past the JO-second lme, leading a fast break, they lean for- ward for a betlt'r view The slick little playmakcr might play ii straight and take the ball to the basket Or he might offer a behind the bark pass to on~ o lus wmgs. lie one lhat bnngs the house down is h1s

fore can,e'nlS with red lights on top 'l'iporr is slated !or 8 and the contest will ser..-e as a rubber match, of sorts. 'l'hese schools spilt d C'I· n~ last w k tn Honrl 1 U SD to the ibow , 90-83 Frida Ill ht m ver- ti r s then beat the Hawa ians,M-75, Satur-

dayrught "All things considered, that was probably the be game we·ve played ill year," San Diego roach J 1m Brovellt said of Saturday s game "We were on the road. against a major l'Ol• lege team, and we played a heckuva game over the The Rainbows will bring at least three players with local reputations. Gavm Smith, the leading I! wa I scorer with 23.2 pomts a game played for he last three sea- sons. Jeep Kelly is a former :-ievada-Las Vegas star And Dan ONelli a gradu- ate of Manan High in Impe- rial Beach, also \\lll play !or the Rainbows tomorrow night, ONeUI transfered to Hawaii ! om Pepperdine last month and already is playing. ]llawan 5-13 after losing to San Jose tale, H-62, Tuesday a4:ht !fhe o s pu bed the team's record on the road to 0-4 this season The ambo have not won a arne on he main- land since January of 1975. USD, \\hich has played only on<> home gai, e m '.he last six ~ks will brmg a n:cord l).2 to tomorrow night's am The startmg been see fans r area . ve ~o , a product of Helix High an Grossmont College w II open at center And Rick Michl more, \\h6 scored 14 pomts and collected 13 bounds Salur• day night, w1l' .stzc'1 at for- ward The rest of start at guard witlt Huu Harnett rounding rut e ront line. Torno v gh 's game will pp o Ii 'hree-game borne stand I r e Toreros. LSD "ill p \ ~OSI to Chapman Tue da) night and Grand Can) a week from tonight be a lamil1.tr and Eddie IJa ,

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Cole Leads USO To 81-76 Victory Ron Cole scored 28 points last mghl to spark l'SD to an 81-76 v1ctury over Grand Canyon of Arizona. Cole, a 6-4 guard, emerged from a shooting slump to hit 12 ofl6 shots from the floor as the Toreros improved their record to 14-7. It was Grand Canvon' seventh los.s against 18 wms. San Diego led 40-36 at half- time. George Hall, Grand Canyon's center, scored 16 pomts and pun, d down eight rebounds.

Top College ~-..7.3-11, Netters Here Asamplmg of some of the top college teams and play- ers from around the nation will participate in the San Diego Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament starting tomor- ro~ at ihe rrntcts at thr UQIY&Niltv of Sar Dirac and San Die o ate. 1g o top 20 ranked college teams will be on hand for the event including top rated USC, the tourney favorite, and No. •3 rated UCLA. Arizona, rated No. 9 na- tionally and No. 15 Arizona State, the defending tourney champi.on, will also compete a,·,·ordmg to USD tenms coach Hans Wichary

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• wins; next foe: EVENINOTRIIIUNE DisPOtch RIVERSIDE - Arter tak• mg care of an old nemesis last night. the Univen;ity or San Diego's baskrtball team will be gomg after i fourth straight w,n. tQn when 11 ta on · Ri ldc The Toreros, paced by Ron Cole's 2b polnUi, ran past Grand CaD) on of An zona, 81-i6. ut home last ~1ght to break an old JIOX. USD hadn't d !eated the team from Phoenix since 1973, losing rive straight gam s to the NATA school Now 14-7 on the year, thr Toreros, behind the hot shootlng or Cole, who hit 12 or 16 shots from the floor. Jumped orr to a 41}.36 lead at intermission and Grand Canyon was never able to catch up 1,;C-Riverside, 9-11 on the year, also will enter tonight's game with a win under Its belt. The Highlan- ders defeated Northridge State last night, 56-53 USO will return home Monday night to play Dom- inguez Hills. G'"Clnd canyon (7'1 o ! 1 ~lo) Hotm(:J) "°'es (ll) Holl (16) Grond conyon u~~~i--S. SC:orii"l9: - ·crorid ·~!nv~ 1 ,;-!! Moore 2. ShlklH 2. MClffln 6. Forrest U:on~sp- Cole 28, Strode•• Stewor-t 6, ~c:!.. foul - Coach Lind$ey of ri,.T-'OI foub- CDnYon lt, USD :;-«fl~ Sfot!H HC1mett